The Netherlands has become the world's first nation to approve mercy killing. For years the country tacitly approved the practice, but now allows it as a policy of the state.

What peaked as a minor British epidemic in 1992 and 1993 has more recently spread first to France, and now to Germany.

WHO estimates that 3 million people worldwide will die from AIDS during the year 2000. The agency estimates that this will bring the total number of adults and children who have died because of the disease to 21.8 million.

Some believe that the strong economy will eventually eliminate poverty and that the country needs only to continue on its current path. A more realistic view holds that the economic growth is tenuous and likely to cycle downward.

Bible prophecy foretells a time when two great world events will converge to overwhelm all of man's efforts to resolve them.

The next four years could bring some dramatic challenges for America's leadership role in the world. The next president will face the consequences of missed opportunities during the 1990s.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem," urged Israel's King David 3,000 years ago (Psalm 122:6). Seeking a peaceful solution to the Mideast problem is the concern, if not the prayer, of many world leaders. But peace in the Holy Land...

The Balfour Declaration (1917), the British document that formed the basis for an upsurge of Jewish immigration to Palestine, stated that nothing should be done with regard to a (potential) Jewish national home that might be detrimental to ethnic communities...

Russia's troubles underscore long-standing weaknesses in how it has governed itself. Will Russians demand stronger leadership?

According to Times science editor Nigel Hawkes, a fifth of Britain's insect species have disappeared during the 20th century.

South Africa has the world's worst peacetime statistics for murder, rape and robbery. To add to the problem, police forces have a reputation for incompetence and corruption.

Halfway through the 31/2-year transition planned for the adoption of the euro by 11 of the 15 member nations, the European single currency appears to be in trouble.

A series of disasters-the sinking of a nuclear submarine, a fire in a Moscow television tower and nuclear-plant shutdowns-may be a harbinger of greater catastrophes, warns a Russian parliamentary commission.

Conditions are virtually back to normal, but just a short while ago newspapers devoted page after page to the fuel shortage in Britain and several other European nations. The problem began in France and spread from there to other countries.

A recent report from The Hague does nothing to support the sanctity of marriage.

The European Union plans a 5,000-strong armed force capable of carrying out "preventative and repressive" actions in support of global peacekeeping, to be operational by 2003.

A World War II vet considers how the days of infamy and victory remind us of this world's crying need for peace.

God's encouragement to Jeremiah and Ezekiel can help us in our approach to preaching the gospel today.

Do you know where your child is tonight?

All of us, at one time or another, have been exhorted to plow forward through life's oncoming challenges with the simple yet profound phrase "one foot at a time."